For the past month, Maggie’s 5th-6th grade science class has been doing a unit on Arthropods. The students all made a model of their favorite type of arthropod – the creatures were not real-life species, instead the students created their own hybrid within a realistic framework. Thus we had soda-can bugs, disco ball spiders, “Blind Ozzies” and others. Each creature had unique abilities that were specific to the type of Arthropod the students chose to research.
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Oscar’s 7th and 8th grade Spanish students showed us the geometric shapes they had crafted, and told us all about them, in Spanish!
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